A Disney World Cast Member Told Me Something I Can't Unknow About Plastic Cheese

If you don’t already know about the gloriousness that is plastic cheese, welcome. If you do, welcome back. While we call it plastic cheese here at DFB, it is technically called cheese sauce at Disney World, but we really feel like plastic cheese does a better job of encapsulating the deliciousness that is cheese sauce.

Plastic Cheese

Plastic cheese elevates a number of items at Disney World including, but not limited to, corn dog nuggets and pretzels. There is nothing quite like sitting in front of Cinderella Castle chowing down on some Corn Dog Nuggets and Cheese Sauce from Casey’s Corner. Pure perfection in our books.

From the first bite, you can likely tell that there isn’t much (if any) real cheese in the plastic cheese, hence why we call it plastic cheese. However, we still believe that it isn’t a Disney World trip without at least one thing of plastic cheese. But we learned something that we just can’t unknow about plastic cheese, so we had to share it with you. If you want to remain blissfully unaware, turn back now, we won’t blame you. But if you are curious, let’s get into it.

Plastic cheese, yum!

We actually learned two things about this glorious sauce that we kind of wish we didn’t know. First off, while we are sure it will surprise no one, plastic cheese isn’t quite the healthiest thing you could be putting in your body. But where this ooey gooey goodness really shines is in sodium content. Plastic cheese has LOTS of sodium in it. Definitely one of the reasons it tastes so good, but also a bit sad. While Disney doesn’t put out the nutrition of most of their food items, we did find a similar cheese sauce that is sold by Gehl’s to see just how much sodium is in it.

Crunchy Corn Dog Nuggets with Cheesy Goodness

In a 1/4 of Gehl’s Cheddar Cheese Sauce, you will find 570 mg of sodium which accounts for 28% of your recommended sodium intake. That is a lot of sodium for only a 1/4 cup of cheese sauce. Granted, when you get a side of cheese sauce at Disney World, it isn’t a huge serving, and if you share it with others, the amount of sodium you eat goes down. This is good to know if you are limiting your sodium intake or have other dietary restrictions.

Dip that cheese as much as you please!

Secondly, we also learned that plastic cheese can be a bit dangerous! There used to be self-serve stations for cheese sauce back in the day, but they had to be removed because someone burned themselves. We can definitely see how you could easily burn yourself, as the cheese sauce can be very hot. While we wish we could still douse our food in plastic cheese, we understand that having it out is a safety hazard.

YUM

While we won’t be able to unknow these things about plastic cheese, we can guarantee you that you will still find us savoring our plastic cheese. In fact, just writing about the gooey sauce is making us hungry from some…

Corn dog nugget with lots of plastic cheese!

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